“Recommended to readers with strong constitutions!” – Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
“These are esoteric matters” – Hollow by B Catling
“Absolutely stunning” – The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
“Rooted in a desire to understand” – Between Two Hells by Diarmaid Ferriter
“Patchy” – Dark Earth by Rebecca Stott
“Next stop Finnegans Wake” – Multiple Joyce by David Collard
“Beautiful, surprising, alive” – An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rosa
“It’s not you, it’s me” – Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
“Palahniuk with its punches pulled” – The Listeners by Jordan Tannahill
“Connections and echoes and ricochets” – A Shock by Keith Ridgway
“Doesn’t quite live up to the hype” – The Seaplane on Final Approach by Rebecca Rukeyser
“Recognisably McIlvanney’s” – The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin
“Think Lost meets The Power” – The Men by Sandra Newman
“Motors all the way to the end” – Billy Summers by Stephen King
“May fascinate or frustrate” – The Dust Never Settles by Karina Lickorish Quinn
“Inspired by the spirit of O’Keefe” – Georgia O’Keefe by Maria Herreros
“A complete gem” – The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed #bookerprizeshortlist
“The maximum maw of madness” – Widespread Panic by James Ellroy
“Expect the unexpected” – Burntcoat by Sarah Hall
“It’s pleasant” – The Con Artists by Luke Healy
“Deeply political and intensely personal” – Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson
“Out of time” – The War for Gloria by Atticus Lish
“All roads lead back to the state” – Tenants by Vicky Spratt
“Wonderfully subtle and understated” – The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers
“Very quick, very funny, very incisive” – Either/Or by Elif Batuman
“No sign of Boyle’s powers diminishing” – Talk to Me by TC Boyle
“Better even than we expected” – Chivalry by Colleen Doran and Neil Gaiman
“Offers questions as well as answers” – Everybody Hertz by Richard Mainwaring
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